Author Archives: Mushon

May 20, 2013

OPEN DESIGN NOW / Learnign By Doing

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I guess “NOW” is relative as the essay I wrote for Open Design Now is now at least 2 years old. But still I figured it makes sense to share. (on more than one level) I recommend reading this in the original site, but just as a backup I will publish it here as well. [...]

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May 8, 2013

The Turing Normalizing Machine

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A machine learning experiment trying to decode social normalcy. This is a collaboration between Yonatan Ben-Simhon and myself and was initially presented at the Science Museum in Jerusalem as a part of the Other Lives exhibition inspired by the life and work of Alan Turing on his birthday anniversary. More at the project’s page: mushon.com/tnm Share [...]

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Oct 4, 2012

RE: Open Knowledge Festival—Between Open Data and Public Knowledge

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Best nametags ever! Each of them a custom laser-cut…

The first Open Knowledge Festival (#OKfest) took place in Helsinki, Finland, September 17-22, 2012. The festival, arranged by the UK based Open Knowledge Foundation was dedicated to the growing culture of openness extended through digital technology. Following that spirit it covered 13 different “topic streams” coordinated by multiple program planners and attracting talks, panels, workshops [...]

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Sep 28, 2012

Dis-Information-Visualization Workshop Summary / Helsinki Sep 2012

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The 1st Open Knowledge Festival was also the host of the 1st Dis-Information-Visualization workshop, a critical attempt to actively explore the dark side of information visualization. In the full day workshop (led by me, Mushon Zer-Aviv, and organized by Pixelache and the Mushrooming Network) 4 groups were encouraged to lie with infographics. Rather than falsifying [...]

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Sep 16, 2012

At the Open Knowledge Festival, Helsinki

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click to enlarge This week I’ll be presenting Wikipedia Illustrated and participating in other events at Helsinki’s Open Knowledge Festival. I would love to see you there: Monday, Sep 17, 5pm Open Publishing and Visual Free Culture - A satellite event hosted by M-Cult and Pixelache, discussing Collaborative Futures, Wikipedia Illustrated and more Thursday, Sep 20th, 4pm [...]

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Jul 2, 2012

לדעת קהלים נסתרים / Getting intimate with Invisible Audiences (Hebrew Translation)

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The following is a Hebrew translation and presentation documentation for my Sept 2010 paper. I recommend reading the original, hyperlinked and slightly more up-to-date text in English. Both the original article and a video of the accompanying presentation are available in English. Share this:EmailTwitter

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Nov 17, 2011

Introducing: Good Listeners

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Good Listeners

a spiritual plugin visualizing the (forced) confessions obtained by divine web trackers. As the Decode exhibition opens I am very happy to launch a brand new project today, Good Listeners, commissioned by the V&A with generous support from the Porter Foundation and in collaboration with Design Museum Holon. Good Listeners is a browser plugin that [...]

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Oct 15, 2011

When Teaching Becomes an Interaction Design Task: Networking the Classroom with Collaborative Blogs

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p>I wish I was in NYC these days for Mobility Shifts, an international future of learning summit. My recent parenthood along other commitments prevented me from joining but I was happy to contribute to the Learning Through Digital Media reader where I published an essay about my experience teaching with collaborative blogs. The peer-review process [...]

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Jul 21, 2011

Tel Aviv is on fire, what’s cooking?

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The first morning in Tel Aviv's tent city (by Tal Kedem)

Israel’s greatest political uprising in recent years is fighting to “not be political”. Why? And would that hurt it’s chances of social change? In the last week we’ve seen the rise of a popular revolt against the housing bubble. It started as a simple Facebook event in Tel Aviv but within days multiple tent cities [...]

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Apr 22, 2011

Reclaim the Street Map!

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The plugin in action: An opportuity to rethink which map to draft

Rather than doing unpaid corporate cartography, join us in mapping the world together as a publicly shared resource. In April 19th 2011 Google announced its new Google Mapmaker expedition to send its users to map the US. This would seem like a great innovative platform for mapping our streets together for those who don’t know [...]

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